04/17/2013 Spring Football Notebook No. 14Pirates Complete Last Weekday Practice of Spring Season 04/05/2013 Spring Football Notebook No. 7Pirates Ready For First Scrimmage At Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium 04/03/2013 Spring Football Notebook No. 6Pirates Keep Preparation Efforts On Course For Saturday's Scrimmage 03/25/2013 McNeill's Spring Practice Press ConferenceHead Football Coach Ruffin McNeill Discusses The Start Of Spring Practice 01/20/2013 Pirate Football Salutes 2012 Season With Annual Awards BanquetTwenty Players Recognized After ECU Earns Bowl Bid, Posts Second-Highest Win Total Since 1992 High School: A three-year letterwinner at Red Springs who helped turn around the Red Devils' program and guide it to a 10-3 record and 4-1 mark in the Three Rivers Conference as a senior ... Team advanced to the quarterfinals of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) 1AA state championship after posting a 3-8 record as a junior and 1-10 ledger during sophomore season ... Helped Red Springs capture a pair of playoff victories as a senior, the school's first postseason wins since 2005 ... Played primarily as a defensive end first two years before moving to linebacker as a senior ... A First-Team All-Three Rivers Conference, The Robesonian All-Robeson County Team, NCPreps.com 1A All-State Team and Fayetteville Observer All-Cape Fear Region Second-Team honoree following final campaign ... Tallied 132 tackles, including 17 stops for lost yardage and 13 sacks, during the 2011 season ... Also contributed six forced fumbles ... Prior to senior year, placed on the NCPreps.com Preseason 1A All-State Team ... Booked 78 tackles and a team-high six sacks as a junior, when the team went 3-2 in the league ... Earned All-Three Rivers Conference accolades after junior campaign ... During first year with Red Springs, earned defense's most valuable player award ... Spent freshman year at Scotland High School in the junior varsity program ... Played for head coach George Coltharp as a senior, Eric Puryear as a junior and John Harper as a sophomore ... Also a member of the Red Devils' basketball program. |
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